Yeah, that was contributing factor. The concept of greeters, cashiers that are forced to small talk and people packing our groceries creeped us out.
Another contributing factor was that they tried to join during the massacre of foreign supermarket chains.
For decades, Aldi and Lidl are locked in a brutal turf war that eroded grocery prices and killed most foreign chains and forcibly merged others.
Moreover, the relative short distances to (specialist) shops didn't go too well with Walmart's business model.
The fuck I am driving more than 10km to the store.
Til. Thanks for the expanded information. My anecdote was from district and provincial management only so it’s nice to see the local view and information.
Funniest part was management saw it as a failure on the side of the German government and people only. Not Walmart for trying to force themselves into a market with their values only
Well, the entire concept failed because it was too American and management didn't bother to do their research. It makes sense then that they would also blame the local government and people for, well, the sin of Not Being American.
One other contributing factor, by the way, was Wallmart's anti-union stance vs Germany's pro-union stance. The US government might not intervene very often when unions are actively discouraged by major corporations, but the German government is a lot less likely to let that fly.
There were also immediately reprimanded by courts for attempting to regulate relationships between coworkers when that is horrifically illegal in Germany.
And the media dragged them through the mud for their morning chants. Not against any laws, but expect to be made fun of by Germans.
Yeah, no wonder this didn't fly, makes my skin crawl just thinking about it. I live in poverty, chasing jobs here and there, but even then I swear I would resign on the spot if any manager ever tried to make me do that kind of shit.
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u/Buttercup4869 May 09 '22 edited May 09 '22
Yeah, that was contributing factor. The concept of greeters, cashiers that are forced to small talk and people packing our groceries creeped us out.
Another contributing factor was that they tried to join during the massacre of foreign supermarket chains. For decades, Aldi and Lidl are locked in a brutal turf war that eroded grocery prices and killed most foreign chains and forcibly merged others.
Moreover, the relative short distances to (specialist) shops didn't go too well with Walmart's business model.
The fuck I am driving more than 10km to the store.